Um, I’ve never been good at these GTW games. And this one doesn’t even make any sense to me. I just don’t understand what we’re supposed to do with all the words that just got thrown out. Figure out what they have in common? Piece them together into one big clue?
Okay, well, there seems to be a reference to Sparta, what with Greece and the 300. I’m going to guess that the word is ’sparse’. I’ll be wrong, but at least I keep trying. Perhaps next time the is a GTW game, the rules of the game could be explained a little more in detail.
Okay, I NEED HELP!!! For about two weeks now, I have been unable to view our Teacher’s videos on this site (I can see them at YouTube just fine, but I don’t want to have to go there). Instead of the video, all that comes up is a tiny multicolored box in the upper left. My O.S. is Windows XP, with Internet Explorer 8.
You should have Firefox and Opera on your computer, as well as Explorer, and this is one of the reasons. If something that should load doesn’t, one of the first things to do is to determine if it’s the browser or not. You’re used to Explorer, and that’s normal, but it’s handy to have these other browsers for specific functions. For, example, I never use Explorer, except when I view TV Guide. I set Explorer’s homepage to TV Guide and set a hot key for Explorer. With just a quick hotkey, I have the TV listings pronto. You could set up Firefox for that. And for Opera, I use it for one of my common emails, also with it’s own hotkey. To set hotkeys is simple. R=click on the Icon of any program, in this case, a browser, and select properties. In the shortcut box, choose whatever keys you want for your hotkeys (ctrl-alt-L for example) to bring up that program. So, with all three browsers…or just two of the above, you can quickly determine if it’s your browser messing up, or something other variable.
I found out AFTER downloading Firefox that I had not updated Adobe Flashplayer. Now I’m not sure if I really want to keep Firefox, or if I can even get my money back.
Hello stigmatasaurus,
I think, that the fact that IE8 didn’t let you know that the video player needed updating, alone is a reason to stay with FireFox.
Right now, I think the number of users using IE8 is around 10% as it is a new browser. Everyone that I have talked to that uses IE8 has had some kind of issue with it and when they switch to FF things work much better.
As late as I am to the game, it is all over, including the shouting.
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Re the new design:
1. What happened to the comment-numbering system?
2. A blank line between lines of comments gets deleted.
3. The edit function is gone.
4. The smiley menu is gone (although I have seen some smileys, so perhaps if one knows the code…).
5. The sandbox has disappeared (although the instructions for it remain, but I hesitate to experiment here to see if the HTML still works).
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I hope these all get fixed.
I remember you but I don’t know if you remember me, to let you know M is still redesigning the site so things may seem a little off right now but they will come together soon. M is really “under the weather” right now and a lot us are hoping she has a safe and quick recovery. Yep right now there is no edit function on the comments so if you make mistakes you just have to live with it “warts and all” But it will all work out! so don’t worry things are just under construction right now.
[] [] drink much fluids… The body does not manufacture vitamin C on its own, nor does it store it. It is therefore important to include plenty of vitamin C-containing foods in your daily diet.
All fruits and vegetables contain some amount of vitamin C. Foods that tend to be the highest sources of vitamin C include green peppers, citrus fruits and juices, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, turnip greens and other leafy greens, sweet and white potatoes, and cantaloupe.
Too little vitamin C can lead to signs and symptoms of deficiency, including:
Dry and splitting hair
Anemia
Decreased ability to fight infection
Possible weight gain because of slowed metabolism …[scurvy]…Thank you for your moment and please be well
lol. an elephant uses his trunk topick up a trunk wich he then uses to knock you out. he then puts you in the trunk of his trunk … i mean truck, an burns you alive
It’s Welsh, Marina. “Llanfair etc.” is the name of a town on the Menai Strait in north Wales. Translation: “The Church of Mary by a pool of white hazel near the whirlpool and the Church of Tysilio by the red cave.”
Well, in in World History AP right now, and we learned about the rival state related to greece stressing millitary…sparta. I dont know what pithy means, so i looked it up, and it was actually originated from sparta meaning tenseness of speech…
and found out the correct pronunciation would be “laconically” not laconic…. and also….. wardenjohnmacone didnt give the right “part-of-speech” of the word…..
From the clues Greece and 300 it’s narrowed to spartan or sparse – both from Sparta which stressed a minimalist, military lifestyle – or laconic from Laconia, the primary region of the Sparta city-state. When pithy, meaning terse and to the point, is added, this narrows it to laconic.
Well, I have done exhaustive tests on those clues and was hoping to shoehorn the Trojan Horse into those clues as Rijk had suggested. Oh well, It looks like laconic has the best chance of being right with a possibility of Sparta(n) being a remote second choice. But, of course I’ll eliminate myself from winning. I should be able to buy Neuro shortly in my area.
Thank goodness you are here James. Maybe Marina will listen to you and take a well deserved rest. On second thought, I probably should say she should continue to work until she collapses from exhaustion. Sometimes I don’t even care for my own advice either.
Really?!?! When I hear the word It always draws up images of an outhouse. When my parents divorced I went from a lavish life style of nice house with horses to a rat shack wood fired stove and a two seater outhouse. I was scared of the darn thing. I was afraid of falling in the big hole. So what’s the connection? They jokingly called it a penthouse.
What I’m discovering about words is there is more than just the dictionary definition of the word, but a personal experience back story. I don’t think anyone really conjures up images of the dictionary pages defining the word.
So my question to everyone is. What words do you know, that have an odd back story?
Right. In that HFW vid you did, I think you explained how a penthouse was like combining two rooms together so a penthouse could even be like a getaway love shack
Hello, HotForWords. While I was walking on the streets of New York City, I happened to pass by a girl who, when in passing, turned to look at the skyscrapers and exclaimed, “Those are some tall-ass buildings!” I have lived in New York City my entire life, during which I have heard the expression “-ass” used in a wide variety of contexts. For example, “That’s a big-ass dog,” or “That’s a sweet-ass bike!” Not only is “-ass” applied to nearly every adjective in colloquialism, but it is also used commonly, especially by the youth. So, HotForWords, I propose a challenge: Can you find out how this slang expression came about?
So, we were wondering why you can not buy fleas at a [flea market]. You could probably do a fun video with this – maybe include your dog in some way A little terrified dog running from the flea markets?
That’s the wrong side! The 300 were the defenders and the Immortals were in the Persion army, attacking. BTW, Alexander the Great was born 124 years later.
I will go with Spartan.
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I hate to say it, but I think the Lady may be right with the paged comments. I did not like them at first, but after I got used to them, they do make things easier and more efficient. Some of these pages have LOTS of comments…
Come on! dont tell me you dont know it. its one of the the greatest video cameras made in Japan. its a really good gadget. A bunch of awesome youtubers like LisaNova, iJustine and so on use Xacti as well.
Marina is sick now, by the way. im worrying about her.
hitoshi-san, do you know the word “technophobe?” When I was a boy in Washington State, we had a wood-burning stove for heat, kerosene lanterns for light, and a pit toilet in back of the house. It has been hard for me to learn all this new technology.
I could have Googled “Xacti,” but thought it would be more fun to chat about it and give Bob a chance to make another pun.
And yes, I also am hoping for Marina’s quick recovery. Perhaps it is silly to love someone from a distance, but that is how I feel.
I just tried to send you a PM but was told that you are not a valid person.
What is the extent of your invalidity and how do you feel about this label?
sex care for healthy living and getting an Irish potato with your payment on time…”slave me hard” or “hardly slave me” by little pussy leonard…PS–hungry?__ share with the rest
China is threatening to cut off imports of American chicken, but poultry experts have at least one reason to suspect it may be an empty threat: Many Chinese consumers would miss the scrumptious chicken feet they get from this country.
China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff (September 14, 2009) “We have these jumbo, juicy paws the Chinese really love,” said Paul W. Aho, a poultry economist and consultant, “so I don’t think they are going to cut us off.”
Chicken exports were thrust to the forefront of American-Chinese trade tensions on Sunday when China took steps to retaliate for President Obama’s decision to levy tariffs on Chinese tires. The Chinese announced that they were considering import taxes on automotive products and chicken meat, a development that some trade experts feared could escalate.
I must learn basics, but now back to the project….peace on
Oh this is too easy! I just google all those words and got this :
“Pithy Short if 300 Greece crisp ” and some secret google tricks.
First off when I seen the number “300″ I thought of the movie. I know a bit of Greece from a girl friend that lives over there.
Adj. 1. laconic – brief and to the point; effectively cut short; “a crisp retort”; “a response so curt as to be almost rude”; “the laconic reply; `yes’”; “short and terse and easy to understand”
[Latin Lacnicus, Spartan, from Greek Laknikos, from Lakn, a Spartan (from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech).]
Noticing that Spartans was in there that made the match for the movie 300.. All I needed to guess the word was to google the free dictionary.
I don’t know if this is the right place for putting down my answer to your video quiz….but here ’tis: [spartan].
If I’m one of the lucky few to get the answer right–your prize won’t help me I’m now homeless–so instead send it to my brother @ 236 tonawanda circle; madisonville, tn 37354.
Marina your tough with guess the word game question. I do not have any clue but would love to share a neurogasm with you and have a _____________. What is the word Marina it rhymes with orgasm. Hay where the fuck are mgreen,lol,cool,etc. What the hell is going on I want my smiley faces.
it’s pretty new to almost everyone i guess, huh. sounds interesting, though. there’s a lot of talks and lectures on the brain and issues centering on it. yeah, found that today and i thought i’d pass it on.
HELLO Marina, this is my first word request I became a subscriber of your youtube channel some time ago and I have been waiting for a good word request. I`d like to know the origen of the word (train wreck) as in I left my dog in the house and when I came back the house was a train wreck. Thanks cheers from Mexico.
soda pop on the house————-why next time the sponsers could divide the drinks into 6-packs to share more? Oh that is not good [capital]…got to save postage to handel with the vandels
Encourage people to comment here by putting a nice picture in the sidebar, the more comments there are the bigger the page gets, and the bigger the page gets the more of the picture is revealed, then when the picture is revealed…. repeat on another page.
You are right marina, there are lots of comments perhaps paging isnt so bad
Why don’t you make a black border for it but set the size to something like 500px long then for every 100 comments just remove 100px from the border, that way the image will slowly come into view.
1.a) To make an image that progressively reveals itself as the number of comments grows, here’s just an idea, not sure how to implement it: Make the image very tall and put it as a background to the comments area. When there is only one comment, only the tip of the image is seen; as the number of comments grows, more of the image is revealed.
1.b) Suppose you want an image in the margin that acts like an arrow saying “Hey! Look There! You can see comments! And you can add to it”: You might try something as shown in this example: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-attachment The simley face image stays at the upper left corner irrespective of the amount of vertical scroll.
2) Regarding the argument that some pages have thousands of comments and so we must have some level of paging: Posts with thousands of comments are old posts that, I guess, very few are likely to be seeing at any given time; so it would be OK if such posts take a long time to load. Most of the actively viewed posts will not have that many comments and so would be able to handle a large viewership with all comments on one page. Once these pages accumulate a large number of comments, the number of people viewing those pages simultaneously will reduce also, I guess.
@james
Yea great idea, or not.
Chances are you get a lot of long comments from students just pressing all the keys on their keyboard + a reply to that comment oh sorry my keyboard got jammed, if only I could edit. To make the comments longer/ more. Just to reveal that picture.
I just sent you an email and one of the things I asked was about this! Why do we always end up one step ahead of each other then fall over ourselves? LOL.. Next time I tweak, I will make sure its 5am usa time! MWAHH HAHAHAH
You should have been an engineer. Something’s working alright and they have to take it apart to find out why.
Never mind, it’s all a learning experience … hope you’re taking notes.
As I was watching THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TESAS with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds from 1982 on CMT, I began to hear outdoors towards the end of the movie my little niece Amanda who is married to an enlisted man in the Navy, her heckling that I do not know how to feel love. Marina, I have some affectionate feeliings for you. I used to think Dolly Parton had some kind of gland problem but she had a christmas special in the 80’s that made her seem like a warm caring loving woman. My half brother from my mom’s first marriage lives in Sevierville, TN near Dollyland. He and I are not friends.
Yet again Marina has been too clever for my limited scholarship, but others have posted convincing evidence for the most popular answer so far.
All I can say is, I hope that Neurogasm doesn’t contain any Aspartame.
I’ve been a lot busy lately. That’s why I have been on this site for a while. Anyways, I’m just in time for GTW game. I think it’s Spartan as in Michigan State Spartans, I need to get back on tweeter as well.
You got on those geek looking glasses taped together in the middle like Murray Brzynski in the 80’s TV series RIPTIDE. he was the computer geek while his smooth operator friends got all the babes. It kind of dehumanizes intelligent people to say that geniusses do not like girls. I had read in Stansfield Turner book on the CIA SECRECY AND DEMOCRACY that the operations specialsts in the CIA felt superior to the technical people. I had to wonder if some of the giggillos that may have been trying to hustle women I have shown an interest in since 1986 were CIA field agents, spies operations specialists. No one has to help america or uphold america. This country does not have to live period. But my attitude was THEY MAKE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Ow, I got lots of strange words for you, but as part of my profession. here is a word for you: [Complementarity]
Or what my colleagues more often suffer from: [Perissology] A word, in which the number of s’s are doubtful.
Keep up the good work girl!
I’m gunna say “The Raiders” because my sound is out on my puter so I couldn’t hear the clue. And everyone elses answer seems to be just as random from my perspective.
It’s a word named after Laconia – a city-state of ancient Greece that in the vicinity of Sparta! Laconic was a blunt, dry way of speaking to which the Spartans were renowned. They used this to method of speaking to deliver their message in the most efficient manner. They didn’t want to be seen as the Athenians, which they saw as a weakness.
Dear Marina,
You look wonderful in those low-cut dresses. And good luck to you in your website redesign. You know much more about web programming than I do, so I’m confident you will produce a wonderful web experience.
As for the guess the word game, I think it’s a treat you enjoyed in your recent trip to Greece, where they make this wonderful baked food (at about 300 degrees) called “Baklava.” Whether it’s your secret word or not, I hope you enjoy a little baklava, sometime!
Seesixcm6
I have a request….could you do [ulemorrhagia]. My dentist said that word to another patient and it puzzled me.. could the trusty HotforWords investigate?
Hello patrick444,
Marina did a video lesson on the root of that word called sesquipedalian. In the sesquipedalian video lesson, look closely in the first 6 seconds and you’ll see your long word there. Marina also talks about that long word at the end of the lesson. Click here to see the Sesquipedalian video lesson
Rudyard Kipling’s Poem ”If” Read By Federer & Nadal …If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
…or..Rudyard Kipling “if” Poem Animation …The poem is read by the late celebrated British actor Robert Morley.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. Born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888 thanks and blanks
Um, I’ve never been good at these GTW games. And this one doesn’t even make any sense to me. I just don’t understand what we’re supposed to do with all the words that just got thrown out. Figure out what they have in common? Piece them together into one big clue?
Okay, well, there seems to be a reference to Sparta, what with Greece and the 300. I’m going to guess that the word is ’sparse’. I’ll be wrong, but at least I keep trying. Perhaps next time the is a GTW game, the rules of the game could be explained a little more in detail.
Peace, Errin : )
o_o Thats a hard one.
terse
proverb or paremiology?
I think the answer is “paremiology” =)
“proverb” is too simple
I would like to guess the word I belive it is concise.
I would like to guess the answer for this video, with the word being “Terse”
ggreat
american
softdrink
marketing
I want to say the answer is “laconic,” but I’m not sure.
I would also like to request the word [Mjöllnir]
I would like to request the word [paraprofessional].
Okay, I NEED HELP!!! For about two weeks now, I have been unable to view our Teacher’s videos on this site (I can see them at YouTube just fine, but I don’t want to have to go there). Instead of the video, all that comes up is a tiny multicolored box in the upper left. My O.S. is Windows XP, with Internet Explorer 8.
You should have Firefox and Opera on your computer, as well as Explorer, and this is one of the reasons. If something that should load doesn’t, one of the first things to do is to determine if it’s the browser or not. You’re used to Explorer, and that’s normal, but it’s handy to have these other browsers for specific functions. For, example, I never use Explorer, except when I view TV Guide. I set Explorer’s homepage to TV Guide and set a hot key for Explorer. With just a quick hotkey, I have the TV listings pronto. You could set up Firefox for that. And for Opera, I use it for one of my common emails, also with it’s own hotkey. To set hotkeys is simple. R=click on the Icon of any program, in this case, a browser, and select properties. In the shortcut box, choose whatever keys you want for your hotkeys (ctrl-alt-L for example) to bring up that program. So, with all three browsers…or just two of the above, you can quickly determine if it’s your browser messing up, or something other variable.
I found out AFTER downloading Firefox that I had not updated Adobe Flashplayer. Now I’m not sure if I really want to keep Firefox, or if I can even get my money back.
Hello stigmatasaurus,
I think, that the fact that IE8 didn’t let you know that the video player needed updating, alone is a reason to stay with FireFox.
Right now, I think the number of users using IE8 is around 10% as it is a new browser. Everyone that I have talked to that uses IE8 has had some kind of issue with it and when they switch to FF things work much better.
Firefox is free, so you’re not getting any money back. Even my cat knows Firefox and Opera are free.
My guess for this GTW game is “Hoplite” or “Phalanx” or “Spartan”
XD
Heeee chose one
Ok I’ll keep “Hoplite” XD
I have two requests: The word for the phobia called [Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia], the second one is the british phrase [Hand to mouth].
Hope that Marina is completely recovered!
Regards
Jemager
Word-request, or better a guess the word-request:
[ it is an art and if you look carefully its all around you ]
i request the word [vulgar] , please explain me where this word come from
test with line break.
a line below that line…
test with line break. funny how I never [learned] word processing other typing
The end is near I got real work…good day 
a*n* answer is [retarded]
TUSH PUSH linedance: Mark Chessnut & Friends
As late as I am to the game, it is all over, including the shouting.
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Re the new design:
1. What happened to the comment-numbering system?
2. A blank line between lines of comments gets deleted.
3. The edit function is gone.
4. The smiley menu is gone (although I have seen some smileys, so perhaps if one knows the code…).
5. The sandbox has disappeared (although the instructions for it remain, but I hesitate to experiment here to see if the HTML still works).
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I hope these all get fixed.
“If it isn’t broken, don’t uh, break it.” — Some ancient wise person
CampKohler
I remember you but I don’t know if you remember me, to let you know M is still redesigning the site so things may seem a little off right now but they will come together soon. M is really “under the weather” right now and a lot us are hoping she has a safe and quick recovery. Yep right now there is no edit function on the comments so if you make mistakes you just have to live with it “warts and all” But it will all work out! so don’t worry things are just under construction right now.
Have a good one CampKohler
Laater….from Vrock
Hi CK,
Shall I send you the codes for the smileys?
:smile 
oops.
Couldn’t edit that slipsy, could you?
[itch]
[blithering]
[hello]
Hello dizzychihuahua,
Today is your lucky day. Marina did the origin of the word ‘Hello’ back in June 2007. It’s an awesome video. Check it out.
Hello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K80yURz2SZc
pretty cool
obligation
[obligation]
two i’ve been wondering about. [tongue] [laugh]
How about the word [toxic]. Does it have mythological roots?
[truncated]
Now THAT’S a great word request!
thanks
[Ascorbic acid]
sometimes stress is too much__-__
[] [] drink much fluids…
The body does not manufacture vitamin C on its own, nor does it store it. It is therefore important to include plenty of vitamin C-containing foods in your daily diet.
Too little vitamin C can lead to signs and symptoms of deficiency, including:
Dry and splitting hair
Anemia
Decreased ability to fight infection
Possible weight gain because of slowed metabolism …[scurvy]…Thank you for your moment and please be well
truncated? Oh yeah, something to do with being mugged by an elephant.
lol. an elephant uses his trunk topick up a trunk wich he then uses to knock you out. he then puts you in the trunk of his trunk … i mean truck, an burns you alive
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phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
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asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine]
floccinaucinihilipilificastically
ethylenediaminetetraacetates
doppelgänger
Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
What are you doing?
word requests
did i do something wrong?<:(
It’s Welsh, Marina. “Llanfair etc.” is the name of a town on the Menai Strait in north Wales. Translation: “The Church of Mary by a pool of white hazel near the whirlpool and the Church of Tysilio by the red cave.”
(And no, I didn’t have to Google it!)
OK… that’s cool, though the word requests are taking up the whole site!!
sorry. i just know alot.
But not that alot is not an English word!
Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine
Turkish?
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Ne protivokonstitutsionstvuvatelstvuvayte
Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamheden
Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamheden =
children’s-carnival-procession-preparation-activities.
összetettszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttes-megnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálatszervezésellenőrzésiügyosztály-létszámleépítésellenesakciócsoporttagságiigazolványmegújításikérelem-elutasítóhatározatgyűjteményértékesítőnagyvállalatátalakításutó-finanszírozáspályázatelbírálóalapítványkuratóriumelnökhelyettesellenes-merényletkivizsgálóbizottságiüléselnapolásiindítványbenyújtásiforma-nyomtatványkitöltögetésellenőrizhetőség-próba
Magyar?
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylala…
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lserylthreonylalanylthreonylphenylalan…
rylglycylphenylalanylprolylvalylprolyl… truncated by Marina
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
fear of long words. lol
taumatawhakatangihangakoauauota-mateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
OK, that’s the hill in New Zealand, right? Maori.
Well, in in World History AP right now, and we learned about the rival state related to greece stressing millitary…sparta. I dont know what pithy means, so i looked it up, and it was actually originated from sparta meaning tenseness of speech…
then i went to this http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laconic
and found out the correct pronunciation would be “laconically” not laconic…. and also….. wardenjohnmacone didnt give the right “part-of-speech” of the word…..
From the clues Greece and 300 it’s narrowed to spartan or sparse – both from Sparta which stressed a minimalist, military lifestyle – or laconic from Laconia, the primary region of the Sparta city-state. When pithy, meaning terse and to the point, is added, this narrows it to laconic.
my answer: laconic
Well, I have done exhaustive tests on those clues and was hoping to shoehorn the Trojan Horse into those clues as Rijk had suggested. Oh well, It looks like laconic has the best chance of being right with a possibility of Sparta(n) being a remote second choice. But, of course I’ll eliminate myself from winning. I should be able to buy Neuro shortly in my area.
[rigged] this is all rigged.
I like the side layout Marina! You are ill though, so stop working… My god, does nothing slow you down?
Thank goodness you are here James. Maybe Marina will listen to you and take a well deserved rest. On second thought, I probably should say she should continue to work until she collapses from exhaustion. Sometimes I don’t even care for my own advice either.
Did you just see that! I swear I just noticed a change on the homepage just now. Omg, Marina is still working on the site at this hour!
She will, whenever I edit things she also edits.
Is Marina’s Penthouse issue out yet? (Marina’s Penthouse issue – now that sounds…different.)
Funny that last story says she lives in a penthouse in Hollywood.
It’s funny.. a penthouse sound so lavish!
Er… sound slavish? well it would if it were yours, wouldn’t it?
Are you feeling better today?
Get well soon.
OXO
Check out your Twitter I just sent you something funny
Really?!?! When I hear the word It always draws up images of an outhouse. When my parents divorced I went from a lavish life style of nice house with horses to a rat shack wood fired stove and a two seater outhouse. I was scared of the darn thing. I was afraid of falling in the big hole. So what’s the connection? They jokingly called it a penthouse.
What I’m discovering about words is there is more than just the dictionary definition of the word, but a personal experience back story. I don’t think anyone really conjures up images of the dictionary pages defining the word.
So my question to everyone is. What words do you know, that have an odd back story?
Right. In that HFW vid you did, I think you explained how a penthouse was like combining two rooms together so a penthouse could even be like a getaway love shack
Now I’m going to have to watch that again!
HotForWords lesson on Penthouse
I figured out how to send that joke to Marina’s Twitter http://tinyurl.com/lfxz3m
Hey, has anyone seen Chemikal lately? I hope he’s just away to take exams & not from tiring of our company!
He’s become a Mobster according to his tweets the other day.
“Protected tweets…” When I was a kid, Mom taught me not to throw rocks at birds. My, how the language has change.
Mobster…I think I liked him better as a Romaniac.
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Guess the Word Marina its hot its delicious and its_____________. Guess it Marina it starts with the letter MMM!
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Here is something for teacher…Rusty Warren – Lady Behind the Laughs
Why is something easy a [piece of cake]?
Hello, HotForWords. While I was walking on the streets of New York City, I happened to pass by a girl who, when in passing, turned to look at the skyscrapers and exclaimed, “Those are some tall-ass buildings!” I have lived in New York City my entire life, during which I have heard the expression “-ass” used in a wide variety of contexts. For example, “That’s a big-ass dog,” or “That’s a sweet-ass bike!” Not only is “-ass” applied to nearly every adjective in colloquialism, but it is also used commonly, especially by the youth. So, HotForWords, I propose a challenge: Can you find out how this slang expression came about?
PHRASE: basket case; pick me, I’ve always wanted to know!
So, we were wondering why you can not buy fleas at a [flea market]. You could probably do a fun video with this – maybe include your dog in some way
A little terrified dog running from the flea markets?
I would like to know where the expression [when push comes to shove] comes from.
Я не буду говорить, что в русском, потому что это вызовет сильную боль читать.
Something to do with Alexander the Great. I think they had a movie out about his 300 Immortals.
That’s the wrong side! The 300 were the defenders and the Immortals were in the Persion army, attacking. BTW, Alexander the Great was born 124 years later.
You gotta watch more of the History Channel!
LACONIC
what’s your take on this???
[Yankee]
please try and come out with something cool & un-heard of! ; )
Is it succinct?
lol
I will go with Spartan.
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I hate to say it, but I think the Lady may be right with the paged comments. I did not like them at first, but after I got used to them, they do make things easier and more efficient. Some of these pages have LOTS of comments…
That’s because the pages were made up of 40 top-level comments, under which any number of subordinate replies could be (and often were) made.
You must pay attention, Grasshopper.
thank you very much for the 5 stars, Marina. it was me who posted the video, “In a normal Japanese house with a new Xacti and Hot For Words” on YT.
Sumimasen, “Xacti,” nan desu ka?
Come on! dont tell me you dont know it. its one of the the greatest video cameras made in Japan. its a really good gadget. A bunch of awesome youtubers like LisaNova, iJustine and so on use Xacti as well.
Marina is sick now, by the way. im worrying about her.
hitoshi-san, do you know the word “technophobe?” When I was a boy in Washington State, we had a wood-burning stove for heat, kerosene lanterns for light, and a pit toilet in back of the house. It has been hard for me to learn all this new technology.
I could have Googled “Xacti,” but thought it would be more fun to chat about it and give Bob a chance to make another pun.
And yes, I also am hoping for Marina’s quick recovery. Perhaps it is silly to love someone from a distance, but that is how I feel.
Xacti what are you asking?
Czech it out!
Sorry, bad punctuation! I should have put:-
“Xacti, what” you are asking.
( Direct translation of “Xacti, nan desu ka?”)
Keeping up with reality[realm] and taking this moment of your time…for a word request
…hail life and the REPUBLIC of LEXICON and the Q*U*E*E*N—-HotForWords> let it rain
sponsor my drinks
Fuckin-ay Blah,Blah,Blah
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” ~John W. Gardner~
Hey Venomrock67: what do you think of “BOOGIE” as a word? Marc Bolan T Rex Born to Boogie Ringo Starr Documentary ORIGINAL AND UNCUT (Part 2)
…nice cars
Yeah, I’d like to see Lady M [BOOGIE]
after she recovers! 
word request that is.
That Doc is a real “Gem” you’ve uncovered.
Tommy Emmanuel – GUITAR BOOGIE
Love to here the F-word my friend I think we should start a new religion!
Hey mountainboy!
I like your way of thinking! But i’m still not hip on the word “religion” though. 
***WARNING***
Before you enter the contest and try for the prize, remember the old saying:
“Beware of Geeks bearing gifts!”
Καληνυχτα! (Greek Chic)
Evan
Excellent…{now thats my kinda chick}…water and bare
I think the answer is laconic… i don’t maybe hehe….
oh…you look sooooooo cute in this video
I would like to request the word [giggle] and [babling]
ok see you….
bye….muaaa!!!!
***MESSAGE FOR BOB***
Do you remember the story whose punch line goes:
“Immanuel Kant but Genghis Khan!”
I vaguely remember it as [sacrilegious].
Never heard that one!
Now I’m [all agog].
That reminds me of the Russian internet search engine (Гоголь).
Armageddon to like your puns more all the time!
I prefer [Gogo] to Гоголь and a pair o’ lips to Apocalypse.
Would you call that a hurricane of dancers, or just Thai fun?
Ouragan? Tu ricane! On yer cyclone, mate.
Hey, while we’re at it: Marina, what’s the “Ouragan” of the word [hurricane]
I thought “Ouragan” was the state between me and Marina. (But that was your point, wasn’t it, Bob?)
BTW, Origen might not like jokes about Immanuel.
You’re manual, I’m automatic.
I just tried to send you a PM but was told that you are not a valid person.
What is the extent of your invalidity and how do you feel about this label?
Well, I swam a mile down the Nooksack River on Sunday and jogged back barefoot…so I don’t think of myself as an [invalid].
As far as PMs, I probably couldn’t accommodate Gordon Brown in the style to which he’s accustomed.
But seriously, you can find my email address at http://www.familiabooks.com.
OOOO, FUN lesson!
Captain Jack is right, of course: “laconic,” rooted in the ancient Laconia region of southern Greece, of which Sparta was the capital.
“300″ refers to the number of Spartan warriors who held off the “million man” Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BC.
“If” is the famous Spartan reply to the threat of Phillip of Macedon:
“If I win this war, you will be slaves forever.”
An economic miracle[mirage]
sex care for healthy living and getting an Irish potato with your payment on time…”slave me hard” or “hardly slave me” by little pussy leonard…PS–hungry?__ share with the rest
China is threatening to cut off imports of American chicken, but poultry experts have at least one reason to suspect it may be an empty threat: Many Chinese consumers would miss the scrumptious chicken feet they get from this country.
China Moves to Retaliate Against U.S. Tire Tariff (September 14, 2009) “We have these jumbo, juicy paws the Chinese really love,” said Paul W. Aho, a poultry economist and consultant, “so I don’t think they are going to cut us off.”
Chicken exports were thrust to the forefront of American-Chinese trade tensions on Sunday when China took steps to retaliate for President Obama’s decision to levy tariffs on Chinese tires. The Chinese announced that they were considering import taxes on automotive products and chicken meat, a development that some trade experts feared could escalate.
Oh this is too easy! I just google all those words and got this :
“Pithy Short if 300 Greece crisp ” and some secret google tricks.
First off when I seen the number “300″ I thought of the movie. I know a bit of Greece from a girl friend that lives over there.
I found this.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/laconic
Adj. 1. laconic – brief and to the point; effectively cut short; “a crisp retort”; “a response so curt as to be almost rude”; “the laconic reply; `yes’”; “short and terse and easy to understand”
[Latin Lacnicus, Spartan, from Greek Laknikos, from Lakn, a Spartan (from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech).]
Noticing that Spartans was in there that made the match for the movie 300.. All I needed to guess the word was to google the free dictionary.
This could not have been any easier!
Mmmmuuuuaahhhhh!!!!!!
Okay Marina:
I don’t know if this is the right place for putting down my answer to your video quiz….but here ’tis: [spartan].
If I’m one of the lucky few to get the answer right–your prize won’t help me I’m now homeless–so instead send it to my brother @ 236 tonawanda circle; madisonville, tn 37354.
Спасибо
Doug
Marina your tough with guess the word game question. I do not have any clue but would love to share a neurogasm with you and have a _____________. What is the word Marina it rhymes with orgasm. Hay where the fuck are mgreen,lol,cool,etc. What the hell is going on I want my smiley faces.
Hi Mountain Boy,
Just type a colon (:) before & after your smiley / emoticon names (mgreen,lol,cool, etc.): :mgreen: ,
, 
Hm, try again:
we all get sick sometimes.
we all get sick, but some are just sicksicksick.
sometimes people get sick of each other.
i’m so sick of you..
not you literally..i>
href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNj7ZyZy7cw”> i’m sick as well.
what was i saying about that edit function? lol href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNj7ZyZy7cw”>i’m still sick
i’m so sick.
hrm… seem to fucking up my
no big.. i fucked up my italics up there ^^..
lol.. yeah i miss edit, too..
the tests are positive, you be illin’
lol! even muses can be sick
might as well get down with the sickness.
dammit! good one buzzword.
more sickness..
damn look at all this sick music, must be time to get ill.
lol! love beastie boys. \o/
men in europe get sick..
now that was a cheap trick.
are all boys <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAqeA5Hc0K4<sick?
dammit. redux:
are all boys sick?
haha.:D oO
punk as fuck!
hahaha
another sick boy.. Oo
i caught anthrax while moshing.
lol! niiice..
girls can get sick too.
just sick and tired..
disclaimer: shades of country but the lead singer’s hot..
i dig bob, bobs cool.
yeah.. he’s legend.
yeah, i’m love sick still.. :/
i got sick of really bad big hair bands.
the sad little world is sick..
i’m a music whore, so sure i’ll do country.
i’ll do a little.. not much, though.
this shit is getting serious, germs aren’t funny.
yeah, and even worse: germ warfare..
sometimes medicine can make you sick.
lol! yeah, i’m still ill.. : (
but sometimes you need a surgeon..
sometimes medicine can’t help.. D.O.A.
the smiths… okay i’ll admit it he’s sexy.
morrissey’s hot..
XD weird al!
kidneythieves nice, lots of tension.
yeah, love that cover by the kidneythieves..
damn, look at all these comments. we are sick! good thing there’s a cure, euthanasia.
lol. freakin’ love the cure’s lullabye
or is it youthanasia?
unrelated: Representation of Value in the Primate Brain.
i’m not good at multi-tasking gonna have to check that later. looks interesting though.
neuroeconomics!? that ones new to me!
it’s pretty new to almost everyone i guess, huh. sounds interesting, though. there’s a lot of talks and lectures on the brain and issues centering on it. yeah, found that today and i thought i’d pass it on.
okay, now i’m reading the damn article and listening to sick music. damiana put you up to this to distract me didn’t she!
of course she did! you know. girls.
muahahahaha! >:)
your both sicko’s
i’m love sick :/
you’re sick like me..
there’s sick and then there’s crazy..
i’m running out of diseases. gonna get my pathophysiology book out.
lol! yeah.. my last was D.O.A. :/
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdQ_sbjxQfI&feature=related"can't escape death.
does life have to be so painful?
i’m pulling the plug, there is no winning against death.
“it’s the grim reaper dude..” Oo
i need some novocaine for the soul..
oh wow, i remember that. whoa time warp.
maybe some methadone..
nah.. just some sweet leaf.
hey now, thats satanic!
huh? satanic.. ? Oo what’s of the earth is of the ultimate worth..
its definitely satanic, i played the youtube video backwards and it sounded like alex.
better than too drunk to fuck..
lol. wha? alex isn’t satanic.. is he? Oo
i’m pretty sure he’s satanic, he’s from east germany.
awww.. he’s not even here to defend himself.. :/
hehe, yeah, you know it.
oh.. yes he is.. lol!
see, i told you!
you were right, buzzword.. : O
who’s a good two shoes?
alex
hmm.. i don’t think alex is evil..
of course i’m not evil.
@alax via buzzword
i know you’re not evil..
so, i listen to some rap, some country. put them together and it makes me sick.
maybe someone needs an Ænema.. ?
one great big festering neon distraction,
I’ve a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
learn to swim. learn to swim. learn to swim. learn to swim..
yeah, great lyrics. good song. it’s been fun, lights out for me. until death do us part. nite all.
nites, buzzword..
How do you play this Guess The Word game?
Is there some button to click on that I can’t find?
Anyway; I think the word is “Laconic.”
i would like to know the origin of how [big balls became a synonym for courage]
HELLO Marina, this is my first word request I became a subscriber of your youtube channel some time ago and I have been waiting for a good word request. I`d like to know the origen of the word (train wreck) as in I left my dog in the house and when I came back the house was a train wreck. Thanks cheers from Mexico.
Claro que Ud. es de México porque su inglés es mejor que él de los norteamericanos…
How about word “keister”
Thank You
Your Idea with explanation for words is GREAT IDEA
Go on …………
There is but one answer…
…[give me or else]
I would like to request the word [Atonement].
Спасибо! =)
Hello,
Would the GTW answer be APHORISM?
All the best,
Shawn
ahna
Back to paged comments again?
Oh, be quiet you! I’m working on the site… chill out. I still have to page comments at some level.
LOL…
Do you?
james.. think about it… some of the posts have comments in the over thousand level. What am I supposed to do about that?
Encourage people to comment here by putting a nice picture in the sidebar, the more comments there are the bigger the page gets, and the bigger the page gets the more of the picture is revealed, then when the picture is revealed…. repeat on another page.
You are right marina, there are lots of comments perhaps paging isnt so bad
Nice one.. but I don’t know how to make that happen.
edit out any comments that aren’t intelligent and /or sexy. hm… no, that won’t work. that would just leave my comments. maybe a few yours, maybe.
ha ha ha, thats funny
Why don’t you make a black border for it but set the size to something like 500px long then for every 100 comments just remove 100px from the border, that way the image will slowly come into view.
A few responses:
1) Regarding: “I don’t know how to do it”
1.a) To make an image that progressively reveals itself as the number of comments grows, here’s just an idea, not sure how to implement it: Make the image very tall and put it as a background to the comments area. When there is only one comment, only the tip of the image is seen; as the number of comments grows, more of the image is revealed.
1.b) Suppose you want an image in the margin that acts like an arrow saying “Hey! Look There! You can see comments! And you can add to it”: You might try something as shown in this example: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-attachment The simley face image stays at the upper left corner irrespective of the amount of vertical scroll.
2) Regarding the argument that some pages have thousands of comments and so we must have some level of paging: Posts with thousands of comments are old posts that, I guess, very few are likely to be seeing at any given time; so it would be OK if such posts take a long time to load. Most of the actively viewed posts will not have that many comments and so would be able to handle a large viewership with all comments on one page. Once these pages accumulate a large number of comments, the number of people viewing those pages simultaneously will reduce also, I guess.
Hope you get well soon!
Gotta love ya, Marina, no matter what you do with this site!
@james
Yea great idea, or not.
Chances are you get a lot of long comments from students just pressing all the keys on their keyboard + a reply to that comment oh sorry my keyboard got jammed, if only I could edit. To make the comments longer/ more. Just to reveal that picture.
I’m gonna go with…
Aphorism or Gnomic.
Marina, this commenting theme
does not honor empty lines?
In other words, two line returns.
The line above this should be blank.
The empty line that I created was not
honored.
I can create an empty line using
the html entity for non breaking space.
I will say laconic, as it means short on speech “IE” pithy.
So now even a new comment ends up last?
reply to comment 10.28
Thats strange, the previous one was also a new comment
ppphhh, The tree structure is back
thank you, thank you, thank you
Just stopping by to say hi to see
how things are going. You’re doing
fine Marina. Take your time. All is good.
From iPhone
Having new comments at the top
is sooo much nicer esp. when using
the iPhone.
I would have thought your answer would have been
Trojan horse
OK… now I have new comments at the top.
Please don’t yell at me…. It’s taking me a while to figure all of this stuff out!
I just sent you an email and one of the things I asked was about this! Why do we always end up one step ahead of each other then fall over ourselves? LOL.. Next time I tweak, I will make sure its 5am usa time! MWAHH HAHAHAH
not
i meant 
test
testy t-r-eats—pages the waiter
knots of fans blow air onto the word-lady
2test2
2..1…testset…2..1
wamwahawmaw
testymoanyonehomie
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You should have been an engineer. Something’s working alright and they have to take it apart to find out why.
Never mind, it’s all a learning experience … hope you’re taking notes.
No she’s good with words, a good engineer stinckss in the words department.
I would like to request the word {tractor}
Looking at this site now.. should post more comments soon
Spartan or if there were a lbs after the 300 it would be my x-wife.
As I was watching THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TESAS with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds from 1982 on CMT, I began to hear outdoors towards the end of the movie my little niece Amanda who is married to an enlisted man in the Navy, her heckling that I do not know how to feel love. Marina, I have some affectionate feeliings for you. I used to think Dolly Parton had some kind of gland problem but she had a christmas special in the 80’s that made her seem like a warm caring loving woman. My half brother from my mom’s first marriage lives in Sevierville, TN near Dollyland. He and I are not friends.
Yet again Marina has been too clever for my limited scholarship, but others have posted convincing evidence for the most popular answer so far.
All I can say is, I hope that Neurogasm doesn’t contain any Aspartame.
Than pick a different one. I know you can do a sarcastic answer, come on Bob, go for it…
Sarcastic? Moi? What can you mean?
Caesar Salad
I’ve been a lot busy lately. That’s why I have been on this site for a while. Anyways, I’m just in time for GTW game. I think it’s Spartan as in Michigan State Spartans, I need to get back on tweeter as well.
Let’s see how many levels deep I can go
second level blah blah blah second level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blahsecond level blah blah blah
3rd level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level
4th level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level level
test
whoa, level is a palindrome
level|_|_|level|_||_level|_|_|levellevel|_|_|level|_||_level
i have \_Aibohphobia|_|”|_|aibohphobiA_/ evah i
i have to do this
the comments box has been widened. time for another level test
my second mail to CJ:
Your gonna be in for a shock.
She is not finished jet so stay out in your dingy for a couple more day’s > till hurricane Marine has disappeared,
Rijk
CJ’s reply:
LOL!!! Let her know I have not even seen the changes yet. I’m scarred! [?]
Captain Jack
You got on those geek looking glasses taped together in the middle like Murray Brzynski in the 80’s TV series RIPTIDE. he was the computer geek while his smooth operator friends got all the babes. It kind of dehumanizes intelligent people to say that geniusses do not like girls. I had read in Stansfield Turner book on the CIA SECRECY AND DEMOCRACY that the operations specialsts in the CIA felt superior to the technical people. I had to wonder if some of the giggillos that may have been trying to hustle women I have shown an interest in since 1986 were CIA field agents, spies operations specialists. No one has to help america or uphold america. This country does not have to live period. But my attitude was THEY MAKE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Ow, I got lots of strange words for you, but as part of my profession. here is a word for you: [Complementarity]
Or what my colleagues more often suffer from: [Perissology] A word, in which the number of s’s are doubtful.
Keep up the good work girl!
I’m gunna say “The Raiders” because my sound is out on my puter so I couldn’t hear the clue. And everyone elses answer seems to be just as random from my perspective.
I am never very good at these, but my guess is “Laconic.”
The answer is laconic. Please give me the neurogasm box Marina. Please, please, please.
MY GUESS THE WORD GAME ANSWER IS :
LACONIC!!!
It’s a word named after Laconia – a city-state of ancient Greece that in the vicinity of Sparta! Laconic was a blunt, dry way of speaking to which the Spartans were renowned. They used this to method of speaking to deliver their message in the most efficient manner. They didn’t want to be seen as the Athenians, which they saw as a weakness.
MAN I HOPE I WIN!!!
Dear Marina,
You look wonderful in those low-cut dresses. And good luck to you in your website redesign. You know much more about web programming than I do, so I’m confident you will produce a wonderful web experience.
As for the guess the word game, I think it’s a treat you enjoyed in your recent trip to Greece, where they make this wonderful baked food (at about 300 degrees) called “Baklava.” Whether it’s your secret word or not, I hope you enjoy a little baklava, sometime!
Seesixcm6
Spartan Lakonian
I have a request….could you do [ulemorrhagia]. My dentist said that word to another patient and it puzzled me.. could the trusty HotforWords investigate?
yup
can you please do the word [Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia] lets see if you can actually make a video of that it would be so cool….
Hello patrick444,
Marina did a video lesson on the root of that word called sesquipedalian. In the sesquipedalian video lesson, look closely in the first 6 seconds and you’ll see your long word there. Marina also talks about that long word at the end of the lesson.
Click here to see the Sesquipedalian video lesson
XIPHOS
I think laconic appears the winner. I personally came up with defiant. Defiant fits well too. The irony!
Oh yeah, it’s LACONIC. huh!
LAKONIAN!
Spartan!
I think the word is Laconic
I think the word is Laconic…
what is [ensign] or [squire]
crazy 8 or rummy 300
if I play the [cards] left to right…
HEAR with your ear or feel it with your fingers
I will say Sparta as my answer.
Spartan
brevity
I think it is SPATHA
I believe the word is “laconic”
(I also posted on youtube page)
Well, I don’t know about pithy,short,if and crisp so my answer is going off of 300 and Greece.
I’m guessing SPARTAN
It’s probably a long shot just using two of the six clues, but that’s my answer!
300-FADE TO BLACK
I can see some people guessed “Spartan” or “Sparta” Maybe that is too easy, Oh well we will just have to see! won’t we.
VR that was a great video. Metalica rocks and so does 300. Great choice for a video mixed with that song.
What the…? I posted my answer but it didn’t save and now the page has changed!
Anyway, shot in the dark: terse
I logged in to this site to post laconic, but found Hs4Mn got there first. He even got the “IF’ clue.
Next question, is Marina’s teaching maieutic?
O.K. that isn’t a good one to request. How about a [bus], Marina?
new word game for a web site renew
B.B. 
is the site work finnished